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Epigram 3. To the Right Honourable Philip Earl of Chesterfield, Baron of Shelford, &c

by Sir Aston Cokain 1608–1684

From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)

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Philip the second! Earl of Chesterfield!
I a request have, and I hope you'l yield:
Yet I (in modesty) long time have stuck
From making it; And 'tis but for a Buck:
Bestow one on me, and on this good reason,
I will not ask again till the next season.

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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 3. To the Right Honourable Philip Earl of Chesterfield, Baron of Shelford, &c.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/296/.

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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 3. To the Right Honourable Philip Earl of Chesterfield, Baron of Shelford, &c.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/296/.

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